I've checked the source cited, The Worlds of the Federation, and there's no mention I can find of the ship that Rosy flew in being called "Fisher".
Is there another source not listed in the article or an error here? -- Captain MKB 00:29, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
- OK, since I posted this query, an archivist added the online James Dixon timeline as a source for this reference. Since the Dixon timeline is not a valid source, I've gone ahead and removed that, and moved this to "WD-1" (the name given in "Worlds of the Federation") -- Captain MKB 03:24, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
- There is another source: the original source is the Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology: see this page. There's also a "news article" on the warp test, but my copy of the book is in storage at the moment, so i can't look it up right now. However, in the SFC Cochrane was a native Centauran, and there was no Phoenix (the first warp ship was the UNSS Bonaventure), so that part is at odds with the SFC. My copy of "Worlds" is even deeper in storage, so I don't know what that has to say.--Emperorkalan 02:18, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
The "Worlds" reference lists Lieutenant Commander Frank Jocasta, of UNSS Icarus making "first contact" with Cochrane and the rest of Alphacent. The science officer made a personal log of having spent several days, using math as the universal language, to communicate with the alien physicists the space-time "curve" of warp speed. Even though this book was printed 5 years before the same-name movie, it obviously confused many whether Cochrane of Alpha Centauri was really from it. Or retired, taking up residence there. I think Shane Johnson's spin was great; Rosy the Chimp, etc. But calls Zella Rancine the Centaurian ambassador, which I thought was funny. (See the male and female centaurs for their global flag, in Franz Joseph's ref) And Data's intro ends with the stardate being wayyyy off of any TNG season.
To finish the point, my mistake for the Dixon version last year. Some have listed Valiant, Phoenix AND Bonnaventure as all different stages of WD's development. With, of course, exceptions to what was laid out by ENT.– Ensignsisko 03:57, 24 February 2009 (UTC)